INFO MIDI LIBRE – The savings measures will particularly affect the prestigious operations of the Department, notably the Agricultural Show but also the programming of the Bayssan estate.
Representation: no Agricultural Show
“We will not go to the Agricultural Show. These are significant costs involved. Jérôme Despey called me, offered to take a smaller stand, I told him that I cannot.”
No external vow ceremony
“We are eliminating the greeting ceremonies in Montpellier and Béziers. There will only be greetings to staff around a coffee-croissant. It's not just symbolic. We're going to be in absolute sobriety.”
And no Tour de France either
“We will not accompany the passage of the Tour de France either. As we had refused to pay €180,000 for the passage of the Olympic flame. I am not going to go to the competition for operations which are not obligatory.”
Culture: the 2025 season of amputated Bayssan
“In Bayssan, we will stop the cultural programming for the last quarter of 2025. We had not yet signed the commitments so we are stopping. We are reducing everything that we can reduce. Festivals, culture we will not be able to.”
Information: mayors alerted to the situation
“The mayors have been informed. I am holding territorial meetings. I am preparing a table with the figures to communicate. I have written to them telling them that we will not be able to extend our commitments from one year to the next. We will tailor-made, piecemeal. It will be very complex. The mayors understand this, but we will keep a small budget so as not to be the one who prevents a project from starting. . What worries me is the socio-economic impact on the decline in general activity.”
The chamber of accounts also
“I have already questioned the Regional Chamber of Accounts. Because if a budget is not balanced, it is the one that constructs the budget. But in this case, it only takes into account obligatory expenditure. We are not there yet, but we are going to vote on a budget with loans that will compensate for expenses that we cannot afford. At the end of 2025, I fear that we will be under supervision, because we cannot. borrow to repay borrowing. It's cavalry, it's simply not possible. Our debt reduction capacity will increase from 4.4 years in 2023 to 20.7 years in 2024. There is a big anomaly.
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